Press Kit

Linda Anderson, pet-expert, keynote speaker, best-selling author, and co-founder of the Angel Animals Network, help people discover and benefit from the miraculous powers of animals. Dedicated to promoting human-animal companionship, Linda and her husband Allen donate a portion of proceeds from their work to animal rescue organizations and they also do fundraising activities.

Click LINDA to watch short clip of Linda sharing stories and giving talks.

Press Releases

Bio Details

Pet-Expert Speakers

In the News

Facts and Figures for Interviews

Television Interviews

Radio Interviews

Articles

Awards

Recommendations

High Definition Images

Note: Upon request from media outlets, the Andersons' publisher, New World Library, will also send a press kit with national news articles, bookcover artwork, bio details, images of Allen and book interior photos.

Television News Interviews featuring Pet-Experts Allen and Linda Anderson

Click Showcase, KARE 11 (NBC) to watch a recent interview featuring Pet-experts Allen and Linda Andersontalking about their book Angel Animals:Divine Messengers of Miracles.

Click WCCO (CBS) Evening News to watch an interview with Allen and Linda Anderson.

Click KARE 11 (NBC) Morning News to watch a news interview with Allen and Linda Anderson

Click Showcase Minnesota, KARE 11 (NBC) to watch an interview show featuring Allen and Linda Anderson

Click Amazing Angel Animals to watch how authors Allen and Linda Anderson reach out with their amazing message -- animals and people are spiritual partners in this world.

There are excerpts from KARE 11 EXTRA (NBC), FOX 9 News, and WCCO (CBS) News.

KARE 11 EXTRA, NBC (Twin Cities) features Allen and Linda Anderson.

Willard Scott, The Today Show, NBC  features Willard Scott talking about Angel Animals.

Fox 2 Morning News Show (St. Louis) features an interview with Allen and Linda Anderson.

Allen and Linda Anderson are interviewed on Dr. Greenfield's talk show "The Family Pet" on Channel 12 Long Island News (Long Island, New York).

On KATU TV, (Portland) Linda Anderson is interviewed about her work with Angel Animals.

Allen and Linda Anderson are guests on Fox 7 News Morning Edition in Austin, Texas.

Story in Angel Dogs: Divine Messengser of Love was featured on The Montel Show.

Note: DVDs are available with additional television interviews featuring Allen and Linda Anderson upon request by media outlets.

Radio Interviews featuring Pet-Experts Allen and Linda Anderson

NPR Living on Earth with Steve Curwood "No Pet Left Behind"Click LISTEN to hear the audio version.

Conscious Animal Radio with host Christine Agro. Click HERE to listen to an interview with Allen and Linda Anderson.

Rev. Jamie Sanders interviews Linda Anderson on his program Spirituality Today: A Spiritual Book Club.  Click HERE to listen to the interview featuring Linda Anderson.  (Note: After going to Rev. Jamie Sanders website, scroll down the program list and click Angel Animals.)

Linda and Allen Anderson have been interviewed on BBC Radio discussing their books and articles about Angel Animals.

Animals Wise Radio has interviewed Allen and Linda Anderson.

The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell

WILL AM 580

Linda and Allen Anderson have been featured guests on Animal Radio

Von Braschler's Healing with your Pets

Voice America Radio

The Good Life with Jesse Dylan

USA Radio Network

KWLM News talk Radio

KOOL 105FM

WCCO News Talk 830

Note: Click Calendar of Events to view presentations, previous and currently scheduled television and radio interview.

"This is a lovely book gift idea!  It is called Angel Animals by Allen and Linda Anderson.  If you love dogs and cats, you’ll love this book . . . a great book about animals!"

—Willard Scott, NBC, The Today Show

Articles about Linda and Allen Anderson

Note: The publisher (New World Library) will also send a press kit which includes national and regional news articles about Allen and Linda Anderson, bookcover artwork, images, bio details, and interior book photographs upon request by media outlets.

Guided Journal
Allen and Linda Anderson's Guided Journal is featured on Beliefnet.com

Awards

Pet-experts Allen and Linda Anderson were winners of the 2007 American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Outstanding Book Award for Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster

Allen and Linda Anderson were recipients of a Certificate of Commendation from Governor Tim Pawlenty in recognition of their contributions as authors enhancing the economy and welfare of the state of Minnesota.

Allen and Linda Anderson teach writing at the Loft Literary Center, in Minneapolis.,

Kay C. Goss, CEM, Director of Emergency Management and Crisis Communication, Homeland Security wrote "RESCUED: Saving Animals from Disaster was very well received by the students and my faculty colleagues.  It provided a very helpful framework for our [Animals in Disaster, Spring 2007, Arkansas Tech University] course study."

Winner of USA 2006 Best Books National Book Award in Pet/Animal category for Rescued: Saving Animals from Disasters.

High Resolution Images

E-mail me at angelanimals@aol.com and we will send you high resolution book and speaking images.

BIO

Linda Anderson is a best-selling author, national award-winning playwright, and inspirational speaker. She co-founded Writing on the Run to help people find time and space for writing. The Writer’s Digest E-Newsletter recommends her Web site (writingontherun.com). The 2006 Writer’s Market will publish her article on finding time and space to write. Linda Anderson offers Writing on the Run and Inspirational Writing presentations to anyone who wants to write for pleasure or publication. She teaches classes and workshops at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and was awarded an Anderson Center’s Residency as The Loft’s Outstanding Teacher.

Her writing has taken her around the world as a speaker and writing instructor at seminars throughout the United States and Canada and to Mexico, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and West Africa. Her professional accomplishments, combined with being married for over twenty years, being a parent of two children, and operating a writing-editing business with her husband, give her a broad and extensive background with multiple areas of expertise and firsthand experiences.

Linda Anderson was awarded a 2004 Certificate of Commendation from Governor Tim Pawlenty in recognition of her contribution as an author enhancing the State of Minnesota. When she was the literary manager and Director of the New Play Project for the Academy Theatre in Atlanta, she wrote five plays, which were produced around the country. Three of them won national awards. She has received state and national grants to assist her writing and theater work.

Linda Anderson has a Masters Degree in reading education from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota where she graduated summa cum laude. She is a member of Minnesota’s Screenwriter’s Workshop and the National Writers Union. Linda is also a member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA).

In 1996, Linda Anderson co-founded the Angel Animals© Network to raise awareness of the life enrichment and health benefits people receive from their relationships with animals (www.angelanimals.net). Since then, she has co-authored Angel Animals: Exploring Our Spiritual Connection with Animals, (Dutton-Plume, 1999), and books published by New World Library: Angel Cats: Divine Messengers of Comfort (2004), and God’s Messengers: What Animals Teach Us about the Divine (2003), Angel Dogs: Divine Messengers of Love (2005), Rainbows & Bridges: The Animal Companion Memorial Kit (2005), Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster (Fall 2006),Angel Horses: Divine Messengers of Hope (2006) and Angel Animals: Divine Messengers of Miracles (2007). Her first book 35 Golden Keys to Who You Are & Why You’re Here was published in 1997 and in 2002, the Indian/Asian and German-language editions were released. Her books have been listed in Amazon.com Hot 100 and Barnes & Noble’s Top 10, What America Is Reading.

Linda Anderson’s work has been the subject of articles by the Associated Press, Gannett News Service, Knight-Ridder wire service, and other newspapers around the country.  Her work has twice been featured on NBC's The Today Show and also on ABC's Nightly News with Peter Jennings. She has been the subject of national wire service articles and interviews in London newspapers and by BBC Radio. She co-publishes two online newsletters, which reach over 20,000 readers in 50 states and 42 countries.

Over the years, Linda Anderson has published numerous articles, plays, and short stories. She writes articles, essays, screenplays, short stories, children’s books, and novels. A partial list of magazines, journals, newspapers, and e-zines that have published Linda’s articles are Arizona Republic, Wilmington News-Journal, Journal of Reading, Awareness Magazine, The Edge, TC Wellness, Aquarius, Angel Animals Newsletter, Writing on the Run Tip of the Week, 2006 Writer’s Market, Animal Press, New Frontier Magazine, E. D. Herb, Turtle River Press, Common Ground, The Animal Times, Twin Cities Wellness Magazine, Lajoie Journal, Amenities, Georgia Journal, Conscious Women – Conscious Lives, Catalyst, The Unknowns, Wellspring, ECK Writer’s Update, and The Wellington Journal. To view clips by Linda C. Anderson click Linda's Clips. Click Cameo and Samanath to view details about Linda's plays.

Prior to becoming a best-selling book author, Linda Anderson was a teacher-trainer and co-author of a textbook series endorsed by the Georgia State Department of Education. Her company also designed training programs and business materials for the hospitality industry. She was the Newspaper in Education Coordinator for the Georgia Press Association.

For seven years, Linda Anderson was the publicist and seminar manager of an international nonprofit organization. For three years, she worked in collaboration with a nationally recognized publicist, specializing in writing, editing, and creating inspirational, spiritual, and self-help books and proposals that have best-selling potential. In that capacity she did editing and ghostwriting of several published books. One of them, The Dog Tags of Courage, was optioned for a feature film.